This paper deals with the question of negation and mood in Modern Greek verb complementation where there is a choice between an indicative and a subjunctive complement, in particular those with the verb pistevo (πιστeύω) ‘think, believe’, but also nomizo (νομίζω) ‘think, believe’, ksero (ξέρω) ‘know’, thimame (θυμάμαι) ‘remember’, vlepo (βλέπω) ‘see’, akuo (ακούω) ‘hear’, and vrisko (βρίσκω) ‘find’. It presents the result of an empirical study of pistevo , based on an investigation undertaken in the Hellenic National Corpus ( HNC ) of sentential complements following pistevo . The factor of negation in the matrix is investigated along with two other factors, hypothesized to be of interest, namely first person singular of the present tense in the matrix and second person (singular and plural) in the complement. As was expected, neither any of the three factors individually or any combination of the three can be considered decisive for the choice of mood. What seems to be certain, however, is that the combination of all three constitutes a context that favours the subjunctive and in one case actually seems to exclude an indicative complement, namely when the illocutionary force of the utterance is that of a question, more or less rhetorically eliciting feedback. It thus does not seem to be the presence of the negation, nor any other syntactic factor, that actually triggers the subjunctive with this verb in some contexts, but a particular speech situation (where the three investigated factors are typically present). That is, the prerequisite is not syntactic, but pragmatic.

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否定与模态

本文涉及现代希腊语动词补语中的否定和语气问题，其中可以在指示性补语和虚拟补语之间进行选择，特别是那些带有动词 pistevo (πιστeύω) 'think, trust' 和 nomizo (νομίζω) 的问题'思考，相信'，ksero (ξέρω) '知道'，thimame (θυμάμαι) '记住'，vlepo (βλέπω) '看'，akuo (ακούω) '听'，以及 vrisko (βρίσκω) '发现'。它基于在希腊国家语料库 (HNC) 中对 pistevo 之后的句子补语进行的调查，提出了 pistevo 实证研究的结果。矩阵中的否定因素与其他两个假设感兴趣的因素一起研究，即矩阵中现在时的第一人称单数和补语中的第二人称（单数和复数）。正如预期的那样，这三个因素中的任何一个单独或三者的任何组合都不能被认为是情绪选择的决定性因素。然而，似乎可以肯定的是，这三者的结合构成了一个有利于虚拟语气的上下文，并且在一种情况下实际上似乎排除了指示性补语，即当话语的言外之意是一个问题时，更多或少花言巧语引起反馈。因此，似乎不是否定的存在，也不是任何其他句法因素，在某些上下文中实际触发了这个动词的虚拟语气，而是特定的语音情况（通常存在三个被调查的因素）。也就是说，前提不是句法上的，而是语用上的。